Public folklore's dialogic engagement with communities incorporates methodologies for
sharing representational and interpretive authority, collaborative programme development …

The paper draws on debates about digital heritage and further examines the implications in
terms of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. Taking i-Treasures, an EU-funded FP7 …

The COVID-19 pandemic forced museums to rethink their activity in the context of social
media, thus generating new ways of communicating and educating about the heritage they …

This is the first book to focus on indigenous, traditional, and folk sports and sporting cultures.
It examines the significance of sporting cultures that have survived the emergence and …

Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) as a concept has received considerable scholarly attention
in recent years. However, empirical understanding of how ICH migrates, and is transmitted …

Presence Through Sound narrates and analyses, through a range of case studies on
selected musics of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Tibet, some of the many ways in which …

This study explores intangible cultural heritage policy in the UK, and more specifically
England, looking at national and international positions, as well as a view at community …

Human tower building castells is a 200-year-old traditional sport where hundred-plus men,
women, and children gather to build breathtaking human formations. Traditionally related to …

This chapter describes and analyzes the entanglements between intangible cultural
heritage (ICH) and sustainable development (SD). It is based on fieldwork conducted during …

Il patrimonio culturale si è trovato ad affrontare negli ultimi decenni una prova mai vista
prima nella storia: l'avvento del turismo di massa. L'altissimo numero di visitatori in un arco …